This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this mean that intense local user-producer interaction always leads to … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … the export orientation of the domestic market of innovators such as and the degree of competition stimulate export success …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels … reduction possibilities elsewhere. One concrete option for Germany would be to enter joint implementation with developing … countries such as India where Germany pays emission reduction abroad rather than meeting its reduction target solely by domestic …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …

This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …

-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …